Summary of Steering Committee Meeting

PRAGMA 2219 April 2012

PRAGMA 22

Applications and New MembersRelevance to Structure

• Engaging Applications– Persistent and Transitory

• Working Groups– Stable, but perhaps less flexible for new activities– Alternatives: Task Groups

• Minimum set of principles to get started (e.g. different institutions)

• Membership– “Heavy process”– Is there another intermediate step– What is the value proposition

• Opportunity to talk after workshop

Future Meetings

• PRAGMA 23– Hosted by Konkuk University• Between Mid-September and Mid-October, 2012• Seoul, Korea

• PRAGMA 24– Hosted by Kasetsart University• Third week of March (18 – 22), 2013• Bangkok, Thailand

Engaging Researchers Hong Kong and Southern China

• Tremendous growth in investments in southern China, – Genomics– Computing

• Tremendous opportunities for PRAGMA and networking

Thank You• Chao Jin• Michelle Ketchen• Christina Branton• Paul Bonnington• Philip Chan• Maria Indrawan• David Abramson

• Reed Beaman (University of Florida)• Blair Bethwaite (Monash University)• Kevin Dong (Computer Network

Information Center, Chinese Academy of Science)

• Weicheng Huang (National Center for High-Performance Computing)

• Kohei Ichikawa (Osaka University)• Chao Jin (Monash University)• Kwan Wing Keung (HongKong University)• Mohd Azam Osman (Universiti Sains

Malaysia)• Jeff Tan (Monash University)• Sameer Tilak (Calit2/UCSD)• Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsat University)• Sornthep Vannarat (National Electronics

and Computer Technology Center)• Yang Zhang (Lanzhou University)• Cindy Zheng (San Diego Supercomputer

Center)

And More

• Students – Please stay for 30 minutes• Dinner – Zagames – 6 pm?– Who wants to come?